Description
Our Best Love Story traces the end of a
romance as an unnamed narrator wanders
the streets of his city, attempting to endure
his new solitude, taking refuge in remembered
places and imagined companions. Told
in a series of fragments, the novel wrestles
powerfully but playfully with its own obligation
to craft a satisfying story of love's formation,
its decay, and its eventual end.
Ultimately, Levi's novel asks readers to
consider whether books, stories, reading,
writing, the artificial life and companionship
found in literature, can ever truly form an
adequate response to the inescapable fact of
human solitude.
About the Author
Born in 1957, Mario Levi graduated from the University
of Istanbul Faculty of Literature in 1980 with a degree in
French language and literature. He has published two
story collections and four novels. In addition to being a
writer, he has worked as a French teacher, an importer, a
journalist, a radio programmer, and a copywriter. He
currently lectures at Yeditepe University.
Reviews
The lyrical style of Levi's prose is heavily influenced by classic Yiddish literature, as well as leaders of the modernist movement: people like Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce. -The Times of Isreal
Levi writes with a reflective melancholy that evokes Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaak Babel, but he's also been compared to James Joyce for his ex-pat-like ruminations on his homeland. -Historical Novel Society
Book Information
ISBN 9781628972306
Author Mario Levi
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
